Hmmm, I wonder what major event occurred in 2016… Lol

Strongly agree. I keep accidentally tapping on things and then having to spend several seconds re-figuring out where I left off.

The blur was just added in the most recent update, so I’d bet someone will add the toggle for it soon.

Another one I’ve noticed: If you collapse a comment at the very bottom of a thread and then uncollapse it, the screen doesn’t scroll down, so it looks like nothing happened. You have to scroll manually to see the uncollapsed comment chain. In general there’s a lot of places in the app, like text boxes, where things should autoscroll to keep the content you’re interacting with on screen.

So glad this is what our governor is wasting his time on instead of fixing the power grid.

Because there’s no preselected default subscriptions like with Reddit. If it defaulted to subscribed when you make an account, then the first thing you would see is nothing. By defaulting to all, it allows you new users to see all that’s available, and once you find a decent amount of interesting communities and subscribe to them, then it makes sense for you to manually change your default to subscribed at your discretion.

You’ve almost got it. The thing is when you view content posted to another instance you’re not actually accessing the other instances, you’re viewing a copy of those posts stored on your instance. Federation works by distributing copies to all federated instances.

So if a big company like Google did as you said, and then suddenly defederated from everyone, you wouldn’t actually lose any of the content. All those posts up until the point of defederation would still be stored on every instance they were previously federated with. You would just stop getting new posts from that point forward.

There’s a bit of weirdness though, since the “true” post on the hosting instance is what handles syncing/distributing copies. So any new posts you made to those communities or comments on those posts couldn’t be copied back to the true post and then spread to the other instances. So everyone ends up with a desynced “ghost community”. So while you might see new posts/comments in those ghost communities from people on your instance, they don’t get synced to any other instance. (If you’re on an instance that beehaw.org recently defederated from, you can see that in action right now.)

So at the very least, the content would still be backed up, but you’re right in that people would need to “start over” and create new communities with new mods and new posts if they wanted the content to be federated. We just wouldn’t lose the old content.

It’s pretty limited so far but I just found this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Yep. They said it won’t have the activitypub protocol implemented at launch, but it will come soon after, so it can be federated with Mastodon.

The original tweet’s account has been suspended, so I can’t say for sure. But here’s the link to Tate’s response.

https://twitter.com/Cobratate/status/1660321995769237505?s=19